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December 1998
Article

Entrepreneurs and Business Performance in Nineteenth Century France

By: Tom Nicholas, Elisa Boccaletti and James Foreman-Peck

A popular explanation for the supposed "delayed industrialisation" of the nineteenth century French economy has been the inappropriate attitudes and actions of the managerial classes and family firms. To address these claims we model the supply and demand for... View Details

Keywords: Entrepreneurship; Performance; Economy; Management; Success; Opportunities; Management Analysis, Tools, and Techniques; Saving; Higher Education; Training; Demand and Consumers; France

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2019
Article

Structural Balance Emerges and Explains Performance in Risky Decision-Making

By: Omid Askarisichani, Jacqueline N. Lane, Francesco Bullo, Noah E. Friedkin, Ambuj K. Singh and Brian Uzzi

Polarization affects many forms of social organization. A key issue focuses on which affective relationships are prone to change and how their change relates to performance. In this study, we analyze a financial institutional over a two-year period that employed 66... View Details

Keywords: Polarization; Structural Balance; Performance; Groups and Teams; Risk and Uncertainty; Decision Making

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September 1997 (Revised January 1998)
Teaching Note

Western Chemical Corporation: Divisional Performance Measurement TN

By: William J. Bruns Jr.

Teaching Note for (9-196-079). View Details

Keywords: Performance Evaluation; Chemical Industry

Aug 2010
Conference Presentation

The Micro-Foundations of Performance in Vertical Relationships

By: Ranjay Gulati

Keywords: Performance; Relationships

Article

Toward a Model of Business Unit Performance

By: Richard G. Hamermesh

Keywords: Business Ventures; Performance

February 2008
Article

Confronting the Tension Between Learning and Performance

By: Amy C. Edmondson and Sara J. Singer

Keywords: Learning; Performance

May 2016
Article

When Performance Trumps Gender Bias: Joint Versus Separate Evaluation

By: Iris Bohnet, Alexandra van Geen and Max Bazerman

We examine a new intervention to overcome gender biases in hiring, promotion, and job assignments: an "evaluation nudge," in which people are evaluated jointly rather than separately regarding their future performance. Evaluators are more likely to focus on individual... View Details

Keywords: Prejudice and Bias; Selection and Staffing; Decision Choices and Conditions; Performance; Gender

June 2000 (Revised December 2001)
Case

Performance Pay at Safelite Auto Glass (B)

By: Brian J. Hall, Edward Lazear and Carleen Madigan

Supplements the (A) case. View Details

Keywords: Motivation and Incentives; Performance Productivity; Change; Compensation and Benefits; Service Industry; Auto Industry

Educators

How does a firm's human capital impact financial performance? By directly observing the employment and education trajectories of a significant proportion of U.S. public company employees from 1990 to the present, we explore the relationship between performance and two... View Details

04 Jan 2021
News

Chasing Friction: The Paradox of High Performing Teams

09 Jul 2001
Research & Ideas

Does Misery Love Companies? How Social Performance Pays Off

history of empirical work on the search for a relationship between corporate social performance (CSP) and corporate financial performance (CFP). Second, we critically appraise the quality of this work. And... View Details

Keywords: by Joshua D. Margolis & James P. Walsh

01 Feb 2000
Research & Ideas

Keeping Track: Performance Measurement, Control & Strategy

professor Robert Simons has been adding to that body of knowledge and practice through an extensive research agenda that has resulted in numerous books, articles, and case studies. Working Knowledge editor Jim Aisner sat down recently with Professor Simons to talk... View Details

Keywords: Re: Robert Simons

June 2018 (Revised January 2020)
Supplement

Reinventing Performance Management at Deloitte (B)

By: Francesca Gino, Paul Green, Jr. and Bradley Staats

19 Feb 2015
News

Review: ‘How to Perform Under Pressure’

01 Jul 2005
News

Turning Great Strategy into Great Performance

Keywords: Michael C. Mankins, Richard Steele

1994
Chapter

Managing Services When Service Is a Performance

By: J. A. Deighton

Keywords: Service Operations; Performance; Management; Service Industry

11 Aug 2003 - 16 Aug 2003
Conference Presentation

Benign Stress and Cognitive Performance in Organizations

By: Modupe N Akinola, Wendy Berry Mendes and Teresa M. Amabile

Keywords: Cognition and Thinking; Performance; Organizations

January 2022 (Revised March 2022)
Module Note

Analysis of Financial and Non-Financial Information for Forecasting Performance

By: Charles C.Y. Wang

This note describes the main themes and cases of a teaching module on the analysis of information from, and outside of, financial statements for forecasting firms’ future financial performance. The module’s pedagogical goal is to deepen students’ understanding of the... View Details

Keywords: Financial Reporting; Performance; Analysis; Valuation; Accounting; Finance